You probably don't need 2 bake projects to do what you're trying to do with AO. For parts that will move and shouldn't receive AO from other parts, isolate them to bake groups and enable Exclude When Ignoring Groups in the Low object properties. This will cause this group to be excluded from the AO rays of other groups. It…
@Kanga making the base is cool but often in production you need to get forms down pretty quickly. We have a bunch of base sculpts we use at work (from previous characters made) for either the base or kitbashing to make new chars... Have to get to the refining and testing in-engine stage as soon as possible. In terms of…
Well that is embarrassing. That was the very first thing I tried and it resulted in everything becoming super glossy. I have just played with that setting again to take screenshots and show you but also quickly played around with sliders and skies etc and it's looking much more like it should.......it always ends up being…
For what you want to do Murphy's tutorial is "still a thing." You noted; "old-school" hand-painting. You will quickly learn that hand-painting is a skill that takes a lot of patience and practice. You will need some customized brushes. This video is "old" but still applicable as well.…
So I quickly finalized my highpoly this weekend :) . The coming weekends are going to be busy so I will need my time for the texturing etc. Would have loved to make proper folds/ spend more time on the anatomy and make the model overall better, but if I spend any more time on the highpoly I fear that I won't make the…
Ok I did a bit more tweaking and playing around with a different pose. I'm not sure what to do for the beauty sheet yet? I'm going to have to come up with something quickly! I need to squeeze that time in... Also I'm linking the images from blogger and its adding a vignette to it which I don't know how to get rid of!
wordpress or blogger. many hosting services will quickly install wordpress. the software itself informs you when it should be updated, and takes no time. it's good for something like a blog for an already popular domain, or a portfolio. hundreds of themes...or create your own. many of the personal blogs i have bookmarked…
This and You could build yourself a library of noses, ears, eyelids & lips, then you can position them around a skull (free online or block it out yourself). That will take a lot of guess work out of the equation. Using FFD modifiers will help you shape the volume of the features pretty quickly, when you're happy with the…
I think a basic gradient/text would be a better way to present this. The background images are just ugly noise and really detract from the piece. The text does as well, and doesn't show any graphic design knowledge. It's just hurting the pieces a ton. Here's something I quickly threw together. It has the model as the focal…
I find videos irritating because I can't get a good sense for the quality of texture painting. On top of that they are cumbersome to navigate quickly and I feel like I can't look specifically at the work I am interested in. Also keep in mind that they people coming to your site don't have the entire video in the cache so…